Senate debates
Monday, 19 August 2024
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Meeting (1 speech)
If there is no objection, the meeting is authorised. Senator Ayres.
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Equal Pay Day (6 speeches)
I seek leave to move a motion as circulated in the chamber and to make a five-minute statement regarding Equal Pay Day. Leave not granted. Pursuant to contingent notice standing in my name, I...
- Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union, Australian Greens (63 speeches)
I seek leave to move a motion relating to the Australian Greens and the CFMEU, as has been circulated in the chamber. Leave not granted. Pursuant to contingent notice standing in my name, I move:...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Legislation (1 speech)
Consistent with the will of the chamber—and I thank the government for supporting the suspension—I move: That a motion relating to the Greens and the CFMEU may be moved immediately,...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Senators (0 speeches)
- Snowy Hydro Project, Mining Industry (1 speech)
I rise today to speak about two issues that are of concern to the productivity of this country. The first one regards the release of water from the Murray-Darling system and, in particular, the...
- Early Childhood Education, Aged Care (1 speech)
I'm a proud member of the Albanese Labor government because we care about Australian workers, and we keep delivering for them. I spoke to early childhood educators last week here in Canberra...
- Gambling Advertising (2 speeches)
Well, it's another day and another step backwards by the Labor government in tackling the problem of gambling and gambling advertising in this country. We've heard from the Labor Party's own...
- Complete Care Pharmacy Rosny Park (1 speech)
A couple of weeks ago my colleague Senator Anne Ruston came to Tasmania, and together she and I visited the Complete Care Pharmacy in Rosny Park. I wanted to share in the chamber today the...
- Tibet (1 speech)
I rise today to address a matter of profound significance: the ongoing Sino-Tibet conflict and its devastating impact on the Tibetan people. I acknowledge that in the building today there are...
- Pellowe, Mr David (1 speech)
In an alarming example of the growing threat to religious freedom in Australia, Dave Pellowe, a Christian minister, is facing legal action in the Queensland Human Rights Commission. The complaint...
- Energy (1 speech)
If you've been following the energy policy debate in this country, you would've had to be half asleep to have not regularly heard the words 'renewable energy is the cheapest form of...
- Aged Care (1 speech)
Today I stand not just as a representative of Western Australia but as a voice for our elderly, those who have given their lives to build our communities, raise our families and shape our future....
- Missing and Murdered First Nations Women and Children (1 speech)
I rise to make a short statement about the inquiry into missing and murdered First Nations women and children, which delivered its final report last week. Firstly, as I did in my speech last...
- International Politics (1 speech)
All around the Western world we see liberty's light being snuffed out, little by little, by Marxism. It suffocates what freedoms we have left. The thing is that this march of insanity could be...
- Regis Resources (1 speech)
Once more the radical Left tail is wagging this dog of a government as we see their radical Left agenda, their anti-resources agenda at play. And this time you don't have to take it from those on...
- Aged Care (1 speech)
I believe in a thing called love. There is no darkness in the story of Mark and Bev—a true love story. You've heard of The Notebook; however, this is a modern-day love story that is 87...
- Pensions and Benefits (1 speech)
At the last election, people had faith that Labor would bring in a new era of transparency. When they were in opposition, Labor MPs rallied against the secrecy of the Morrison government and its...
- Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee (1 speech)
Last week, I tabled the report of the Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee into missing and murdered First Nations women and children. The issues dealt with within that inquiry...
- Gender Equality (2 speeches)
Today is Australia's Equal Pay Day. It takes 50 extra working days for Australian women to earn the same, on average, as men. The recent ABS data shows the gender pay gap is 11.5 per cent. It's a...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Intravenous Fluid Products (12 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Health and Aged Care, Senator Gallagher. The current shortage of saline IV fluids in Australia poses a very serious risk to the...
- Ministry (0 speeches)
- Temporary Arrangements (1 speech)
I apologise to the chamber. I neglected to outline at the commencement of question time a change in ministerial arrangements. I have written to all the party leaders about Senator Farrell's...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Women's Economic Security (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Women and Minister for Finance, Senator Gallagher. Minister, today is Equal Pay Day, marking the 50 days into the new financial year that Australian women must...
- Taxation (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Treasurer, Senator Gallagher. Minister, how much will an average Australian worker earning between $50,000 and $100,000 per year lose to bracket...
- Middle East: Migration (24 speeches)
My question is to Minister Wong representing the Prime Minister. Minister, Mr Peter Dutton has set a new low in racism with his disgraceful calls for a blanket entry ban on Palestinians fleeing...
- Energy (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Climate Change and Energy, Senator McAllister. We know that there are a range of technologies available to Australians to save on...
- Native Title (12 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Indigenous Australians, Senator McCarthy. Is your Labor government supporting the Queensland state Labor government to secretly give away freehold land to...
- Infrastructure (10 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Finance, Senator Gallagher. Standard & Poor's global rating agency and Moodys have warned that the Victorian government will face a severe credit rate...
- Aukus (26 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. The Albanese Labor government has just signed the AUKUS 2.0 agreement. One of the many issues under the agreement is that...
- Missing and Murdered First Nations Women and Children (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Indigenous Australians, Senator McCarthy. Last week the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee released findings from its inquiry into...
- Environment (12 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Water, Senator McAllister. I refer the minister to plans for a new billion-dollar gold and silver mine, which...
- Employment (17 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. I note that low wages were a deliberate design feature of the Liberal and National parties' economic plan for over a decade,...
- Questions without Notice: Additional Answers (0 speeches)
- Antisemitism (1 speech)
During question time on Wednesday last week, I undertook to provide further information in response to questions asked of me by Senator Chandler relating to the comments of the Iranian...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- Intravenous Fluid Products, Infrastructure (6 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answers given by the Minister representing the Minister for Health and Aged Care and the Minister for Finance (Senator Gallagher) to questions without...
- Native Title (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Minister for Indigenous Australians (Senator McCarthy) to a question without notice I asked today relating to native title. My office...
- Aukus (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Minister representing the Minister for Defence (Senator Wong) to a question without notice I asked today relating to AUKUS. It was an...
- Middle East: Migration (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Senator Wong) to a question without notice I asked today relating to migration. Stoking division and...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Postponement (1 speech)
Does any senator wish for the question to be put on any of those notifications? If not, we will proceed.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Reporting Date (1 speech)
There being no objection, we will move on.
- Economics References Committee; Reference (1 speech)
I move: (1) That the following matter be referred to the Economics References Committee for inquiry and report by 19 September 2024: How the Australian Bureau of Statistics produces statistics...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Cost of Living (1 speech)
I remind senators that, after 4.30 pm last Thursday, a division was called on the motion moved by Senator Kovacic relating to general business notice of motion No. 570 concerning the cost of...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Economy (10 speeches)
A letter has been received from Senator O'Sullivan: Pursuant to standing order 75, I propose that the following matter of public importance be submitted to the Senate for discussion: Pursuant to...
- Matters of Urgency (0 speeches)
- Gas Industry: Middle Arm (11 speeches)
The President has received the following letter from Senator McKim: Pursuant to standing order 75, I give notice that today the Australian Greens propose to move "That, in the opinion of the...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Legislation (8 speeches)
I seek leave to move a motion concerning the consideration of the Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment (Administration) Bill 2024. Leave not granted. Pursuant to contingent notice, I...
- Petitions (0 speeches)
- Live Animal Exports (1 speech)
by leave—I table a non-conforming petition, signed by 638 Townsville residents, to end the live animal export trade.
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Economics References Committee; Reference (8 speeches)
I move: That the following matter be referred to the Economics References Committee for inquiry and report by 18 November 2024: The involvement of the Construction, Forestry and Maritime...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Energy (1 speech)
I rise today to speak about the huge potential for a future made in Australia that is being tapped into in the upper Spencer Gulf in South Australia. This is a region that is already starting to...
- Hall, Mr Raymond Steele (1 speech)
Last week the Senate moved a motion of condolence for Raymond Steele Hall. It was an honour to preside over contributions of my fellow senators, especially with his wife, Joan Hall, joining us in...
- Asylum Seekers (1 speech)
Last week I had the honour of hosting three women poets from refugee backgrounds in Parliament House to share their writing. The event was made possible by Red Room Poetry's Writing in Resistance...
- Empowering Migrants Expo (1 speech)
I would like to congratulate my friend and colleague Senator McLachlan for the comments he made in relation to the late Hon. Steele Hall. I thought that was a terrific contribution. You're...
- Wages (1 speech)
I rise to express my unwavering support for the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association, known as the SDA, a union who have a pivotal campaign on the way to address and rectify the...
